AirPrint Activator to work with iOs 5?

Yay!! I can now print from my iPhone 4S!! I had Airprint installed previously, but when I updated to IOS 5, I too lost the ability. Now its back with these great instructions!! Many thanks.

I have a Brother 4100E laser printer that I have networked using Cirago network adaptor. I did have to enable the Guest account in my Win7 computer. I'm so glad it works again.

Tip: If you're having problems with the Airprint printer disappearing, try going through an ad hoc network. I created one on my PC laptop and Airprint seems to work every time now. Pain in the butt but at least I have a workaround.

For Windows 7 users:

Guimon's advice works perfectly from iPad on iOS5 with a USB printer hanging off my PC (Canon Pixma MP540 in my case).

However, remember to share your printer to all on your network:

Start / Devices and Printers

Right click on your printer and select Printer Properties and select Sharing tab and then check the Share this Printer box.

On the security tab, check that Everyone had Print permission set.

Also remember to set your firewall permissions for Airprint:

For F-Secure Internet Security (2011), open it up and select Settings and then goto Netowrk Connections.

Select Application Control and then Add.

Browse for or enter the full path to airprint.exe (C:\Program Files\Airprint\airprint.exe if that's where you've installed it) and set outbound and inbound connections to "Allow".

Enable your Guest User account and now you should be printing from your iPad. Good luck

I had the exact same problem LossAngeles.

Are you running Norton Security Suite? I was and that was my problem even though I had it set to "allow" it still did not work. Here is how I fixed it:

In Norton Security Suite go to: Manage fire wall

Program Rules

Find AirPrint for windows

Highlight AirPrint, then click on Modify at the bottom

Then click Modify on this new page

next click on the communitcations tab

Select TCP for the protocol to allow

Then down below select: "Only communications that match all types and ports listed below"

next select ADD

Select "Individually specified ports"

Select "Local"

For port number: 631

Works like a charm now, hope that saves someone hours of googling, I was going in circles because it was set to allow the whole time, that wasn't good enough apparently!

I was having the EXACT same proble as you. The key to fixing mine was specifically opening port 631.

You should try to force MS SE to open port 631 by:

• Open Windows Firewall by clicking the Start button , and then clicking Control Panel. In the search box, type firewall, and then click Windows Firewall.
• In the left pane, click Advanced settings. If you're prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
• In the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security dialog box, in the left pane, clickInbound Rules, and then, in the right pane, click New Rule.
• Follow the instructions in the New Inbound Rule wizard.

That was taken from MS website, I'm using Norton so I don't know if it works or not.

My Iphone 4 and IPad2 began to see the shared printers, but they can´t connect to them. This´s happenning to the new shared printer. The old ones it´s perfect. Anyone having this problem? When I create a new shared printer the Ipad ou Iphone can´t connect to it, and on idevices still showing a LOCKER. What could I do?

My Iphone 4 and IPad2 began to see the shared printers, but they can´t connect to them. This´s happenning to the new shared printer. The old ones it´s perfect. Anyone having this problem? When I create a new shared printer the Ipad ou Iphone can´t connect to it, and on idevices still showing a LOCKER. What could I do?

My Iphone 4 and IPad2 began to see the shared printers, but they can´t connect to them. This´s happenning to the new shared printer. The old ones it´s perfect. Anyone having this problem? When I create a new shared printer the Ipad ou Iphone can´t connect to it, and on idevices still showing a LOCKER. What could I do?

THANK YOU YOU REALLY HELP ME 🙂🙂🙂😉

I have a corporate laptop that doesn't allow guest account activation. Is there anyway to get this to work without the guest account?

Worked perfectly after going into the Firewall and manually (add, browse, etc) adding the airprint.exe file. Also if using 64 bit add (x86) to path after Program Files

Thanks......was going crazy with this, was about to buy Fingerprint but after seeing the price increase to $19.95 ;-( I decided to rack my brain a little more ....thanks again

Worked perfectly after going into the Firewall and manually (add, browse, etc) adding the airprint.exe file. Also if using 64 bit add (x86) to path after Program Files

Thanks......was going crazy with this, was about to buy Fingerprint but after seeing the price increase to $19.95 ;-( I decided to rack my brain a little more ....thanks again

Hi there,

I did exactly what was described but it did not work for me. First cmd to create AirPrint for IOS5 worked and was successful. The next cmd sc.exe start AirPrint gave me the following message:

[SC] Start Service Failed 2:

The system cannot find the file specified.

What do I need to do?